date:Nov 02, 2012
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpurs agricultural and food engineering department is looking at developing the concept of fermented functional foods for healthy living. It is applying fermentation to design and manufacture of functional foods which cover probiotic foods.
Functional foods like probiotic foods are known to contain live microbes and the fermentation may produce or release health promoting compounds in the substrate medium, explained H N Mishra from the agricultural and food